Dr Gareth A Jones, S506, Dr Asher Ghertner, K101, Dr Hyun Shin, S416.

MSc Urbanisation and Development, LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Urban Policy, MSc Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research), MSc Environment and Development, MSc Local Economic Development, MSc Development Management, MSc Development Studies and MSc Development Studies (Research).  Other suitably qualified and interested graduate students may take or audit the course with the permission of the teacher responsible.

This course concentrates on key urban policy debates in the developing world particularly over the past two decades. It highlights the interconnections between evolving development trends and research, urban policy and practice. Topics include Urban Bias; New Urban Agenda; the State and 'Public' Policy; Social Life of Cities; Housing and Squatter Upgrading; Rights and Evictions; Access to Land and Security of Tenure; Environmental Justice; Governance and Participation; World-Class Cities; Flexible Planning and Elite Informality; Post-socialist Urbanisation and the Rise of New Urbanism; Planning Cities in Transition; Property Rights and Urbanisation in China; Urban Social Policy and Privatisation; civil society actors; youth; livelihoods, poverty and gender; violence and post-conflict cities. Dedicated lectures will draw from staff research , with particular emphasis on Mexico, India, The Gambia, South Africa and post-socialist countries including China.

20 two-hour lectures and 20 one-hour seminars MT and LT, and 2-hour revision ST.

One essay of 1,500 words (formative).

A comprehensive reading list mostly focussing on articles will be provided. Useful books include: S Chant, Gender, Cities and the Millennium Development Goals in the Global South, 2007; D Chavez & B Goldfrank, The Left in the City: Participatory Local Governments in Latin America (2004); K Datta & G A Jones (Eds), Housing and Finance in Developing Countries, Routledge (1999); M Davis, Planet of Slums (2006); A Durand-Lasserve & L Royston, Holding their Ground: secure land tenure for the urban poor in developing countries, Earthscan (2001); M Hamza & R Zetter (Eds), From Welfare to Market: The State, Aid and Policy Shifts in Urban Development Programmes, Earthscan (2002); S Graham, Cities under Siege: the new military urbanism (2010); G A Jones & D. Rodgers, Youth Violence in Latin America (2009); K Koonings and D Kruijt (Eds), Mega-Cities: the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the Global South, Zed (2009); Caroline Moser, Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: assets and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2009, (2009); C Rakodi (Ed), Urban Livelihoods: a people centred approach to reducing urban poverty, Earthscan (2002); A. Roy and A. Ong (eds.) Worlding Cities: Asian experiments and the art of being global (2011); H de Soto, The Mystery of Capital, Bantam Books (2001); F Wu (Ed), China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism (2007); R Forrest & J Lee (Eds) Housing and Social Change: East-West Perspectives (2003); G Andrusz et al, (Eds), Cities after socialism (1996); D Pinder, Visions of the City (2005); Y-t Hsing, The Great Urban Transformation (2010).

One assessed essay of 3,000 words (25%) and one three-hour unseen examination (75%).